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Waha Private Debt

Waha Private Debt business provides bespoke financing and direct lending solutions to mid-market companies in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region.

Waha Private Debt employs a cash-flow based approach to lending, providing financing and lending solutions tailored to the specific needs and requirements of borrowers and their respective business plans. These funding requirements include growth and expansion capital, funds for share buybacks and special dividends, pre-IPO growth and acquisition financing, acquisition financing for management and leveraged buyouts, balance sheet recapitalisation and debt refinancings.

Waha Private Debt has the ability to structure its financing into a broad spectrum of instruments. These include secured loans, uni-tranche and multiple tranche loans, mezzanine debt, bonds, preferred shares, convertible loans and bonds, convertible preferred shares, equity, warrants and profit participations. Our typical transaction often comprises some mix of the above mentioned instruments. Our financing solutions are provided either directly to companies seeking capital, to private equity firms in connection with financing a buyout, as well as to the portfolio companies of such private equity sponsors. Waha Private Debt is able to provide both conventional and shariah-compliant financing structures.